The University of Vermont is labeled one of the original “Public Ivies,” a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.

Founded in 1791, UVM is the 23rd college founded in the United States and was the fifth college established in New England after Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown.

The university’s 451-acre (1.83 km2) campus is located in Burlington. Features of the UVM campus include the historic University Green, the Dudley H. Davis Center – the first student center in the nation to receive U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold certification – the Fleming Museum of Art, and the Gutterson/Patrick athletic complex, home to UVM’s Division I athletic teams. The largest hospital complex in Vermont, Fletcher Allen Health Care, has its primary facility adjacent to the UVM campus and is affiliated with the UVM College of Medicine.

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December 9, 2016 - By studying a sample of bedrock taken from beneath Greenland's ice deposit, researchers found that the autonomous Danish territory was ice-free (or “deglaciated”) for “extended periods during the Pleistocene epoch,” stretching from 2.6 million years to ...

December 7, 2016 - The team, made up from researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of Vermont, Boston College and Imperial College London, analyzed sediments eroded from the continent and deposited in the ocean off the coast, which are like a ...

December 7, 2016 - The team, made up from researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of Vermont, Boston College and Imperial College London, analyzed sediments eroded from the continent and deposited in the ocean off the coast, which are like a ...

December 7, 2016 - To that last point, saffron could someday help mitigate the midwinter blues of Vermont's farmers in more ways than one. Over the past year, researchers in the University of Vermont Department of Plant and Soil Science have concluded that high-quality ...

December 5, 2016 - A University of Vermont scientist recently won a $450,000 grant to continue his research that could one day lead to a new approach to treating a rare, more aggressive form of breast cancer. The rate of women dying from breast cancer has gone down by ...

December 5, 2016 - Laura Lewis, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, conducts research designed to improve diagnostic instruments for individuals with ASD and to promote self-advocacy and quality of life for individuals and couples affected ...

December 5, 2016 - Other members of the NCST consortium include University of California-Riverside, University of Southern California, California State University-Long Beach, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Vermont. “I applaud the U.S. Department of ...

December 1, 2016 - The facility is actually an agriculture research site. And inside, soft purple flowers of the saffron crocus are in full bloom. Dr. Margaret Skinner is a research professor at the University of Vermont Entomology Research Lab. “Each flower has six petals.

November 30, 2016 - That set of pollution limits, called a total maximum daily load, may rest on incorrect assumptions about Vermont's future weather patterns, by failing to adequately account for the effects of global climate change, the UVM researchers said. The EPA's ...

November 22, 2016 - Vermont legislators gearing up for a new session in the Statehouse have tapped University of Vermont researchers for their expertise on the healthcare issues that they will likely grapple with next year. UVM recently hosted its fourth annual ...

Energy hybrid

December 9, 2016 - To support the development of microgrids in south-east Asia, Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is leading the renewable energy integration demonstrator — Singapore (Reids) project. When fully constructed Reids will be the largest ...

December 7, 2016 - “The operation of this technology, a world's first, is a major milestone for the geothermal industry and a reinforcement of our commitment to innovation and energy efficiency,” said Francesco Venturini, Head of Enel's Global Renewable Energies. “We are ...

December 6, 2016 - It increased the plant's output by 1008MWh between July and September, offsetting energy consumption by 8.8%. Enel operates another hybrid plant in the US that combines geothermal and solar power. "The operation of this technology, a world's first, is ...

December 3, 2016 - Why not exploit the benefits of batteries and super capacitors simultaneously and combine them in some kind of energy hybrid, they asked themselves. In the current issue of scientific journal Nature Materials the group introduces its approach ...

December 2, 2016 - "In a developed market, you are competing with cheaper forms of conventional power generation, such as gas and also hydro. Energy storage costs still have some way to come down for a hybrid plant like Kennedy Energy Park to be competitive," he said.

December 1, 2016 - SEATTLE - When firefighter paramedics Morlon Malveaux and Mark Pedeferri learned that their powerhorse diesel ambulance was going to be traded for a gas-powered hybrid they were more than a little concerned. The two, who run a Medic One rig ...